Tecno formally launched the Spark 30 lineup with two telephones, vanilla and Professional, becoming a member of the Spark 30C from early September. The Spark 30 has a black and yellow Bumblebee variant, whereas we now current you the Spark 30 Professional in Optimus Prime colours – Purple, Blue, and Silver.
The telephone comes with an adapter, charging cable, and wired earphones, which is a good retail package deal, however right here go our impressions of its efficiency as soon as taken out of the field.
The Spark 30 collection is for budget-conscious customers who nonetheless need some pleasure, nay, spark, from their telephones. The Professional model packs a 6.78″ AMOLED show with Full HD+ decision and as much as 120 Hz refresh fee. We love that it comes with an under-display fingerprint scanner, which works shortly and reliably.
The Transformers Theme brings customized wallpaper and icon designs to the Spark 30 Professional, and they’re positively one thing. They won’t be to everybody’s style, however in case you are shopping for a telephone with its again wanting like Optimus Prime, absolutely you’ll recognize if the entrance additionally seems like a Transformer.
Tecno did put a 13 MP selfie digicam contained in the punch gap, however the circle additionally serves as a hub for notifications. It’s known as Dynamic Port and is enabled within the Particular Operate menu by means of Settings. Identical to Dynamic Island on iOS, it epxands to point out you notifications for incoming calls and notifications, charging standing, media participant, and even some suggestions.
The corporate got here a good distance in sharpening its personalized interface, and regardless of its many additional options, it now not feels disorganized. There are Floating Home windows, which permits for some multi-window expertise; Sensible Panel brings shortcuts to the desktop with a single swipe from the aspect, and there may be additionally Sport Mode and Youngsters Mode for various use-case eventualities.
UI Options
Tecno is so pleased with its AI improvement that it introduced it twice in 2024 – as soon as in Barcelona throughout MWC and once more in Berlin throughout IFA. The Spark 30 Professional is among the first telephones with HiOS having the Tecno AI out of the field, together with a Gemini-powered voice assistant known as Ella.
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We examined the AI assistant, and its efficiency is alright – nothing extraordinary. It may well reply questions and maintain a dialog. It is rather vital to not count on any magic from the Spark 30 Professional, particularly offline, as a result of the Helio G100 chipset is considerably restricted by way of processing energy to deal with the seven billion adjustable parameters which might be inside Gemini.
Tecno Spark 30 Professional has a digicam island on the again with a minimum of 4 separate circles, however just one is for the 108 MP digicam, which is the one usable shooter.
Tecno Spark 30 Professional digicam samples
There’s a quad-LED flash on the again, and we’ve to understand Tecno implementing a dual-LED flash on the entrance, embedded within the prime bezel. Tecno Spark 30 Professional has an IR blaster positioned on the digicam island.
Tecno Spark 30 Professional portrait: 1x • 3x
Tecno Spark 30 Professional selfie: With LED flash • With out LED flash
We did say there are wired earphones within the field, so there’s clearly a 3.5 mm audio jack. The Spark 30 Professional additionally has FM radio, NFC, twin nano-SIM + microSD card tray, and a USB-C port for as much as 33W wired charging.
All these options in the identical telephone make the Spark 30 Professional a particularly enticing machine, and that is earlier than contemplating that it has a 5,000 mAh battery inside a 7.4 mm physique.
The Spark 30 Professional is designed for markets the place 5G connectivity just isn’t so widespread; the telephone has 4.5G, which is LTE Superior. It does have pre-installed AI options, which is an enormous promoting level for Tecno and why some would possibly choose this telephone over the Poco M6 Professional or the Galaxy A15, regardless of these telephones having extra cameras or higher uncooked efficiency.
We’ve to recollect Tecno is a robust participant in Africa and Southeast Asia, and that is the place we count on to see the Spark 30 Professional carry out effectively. This month it ought to attain markets like Ghana, Nigeria and Kenya, the place the telephone is anticipated to price round $200 for the 8/128 GB model, and about $220 for the 8/256 GB choice.